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doc,meta: prefer aliases and stubs over Runtime Deprecations #30153

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doc,meta: prefer aliases and stubs over Runtime Deprecations 
Avoid Runtime Deprecations when an alias or a stub/no-op will suffice.
An alias or stub will have lower maintenance costs for end users.

Refs: #29989 (comment)

PR-URL: #30153
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
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Expand Up @@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ Runtime Deprecations and End-of-Life APIs (internal or public) are breaking
changes (`semver-major`). The TSC may make exceptions, deciding that one of
these deprecations is not a breaking change.

Avoid Runtime Deprecations when an alias or a stub/no-op will suffice. An alias
or stub will have lower maintenance costs for end users and Node.js core.

All deprecations receive a unique and immutable identifier. Documentation,
warnings, and errors use the identifier when referring to the deprecation. The
documentation for the deprecation identifier must always remain in the API
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